2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Heywood · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Heywood
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty per cent of all households in Heywood consist of just one person, the highest proportion of any household type. This high number of single-person homes means the area has a smaller typical household size than most of the country.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Heywood — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Heywood has 2.1 people, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011. This trend is driven by the fact that 40% of residents live alone, a figure far above the Victorian average.
40.0% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Heywood splits fairly evenly between 1 person (40%) and 2 people (37%), with 4 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 23.3% of the local total, which is well above the state and national figures. This proportion has risen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011.
23.3% ▲ +24.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Heywood splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (39%) and Couples without children (35%), with One-parent families at 23%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Heywood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215040/heywood/topic/family-households